Audrey Taylor Gonzalez

South of Everything (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

ForeWord Reviews' IndieFab Book of the Year "Editor's Choice Award" Independent Publisher Awards Bronze "Best Regional Fiction South" Winner of International Book Awards in "Religious Fiction" Category Set in 1940s Germantown, Tennessee, South of Everything is a magical coming of age story about the daughter of a plantation-owning family, who, despite her privileged background, finds more in common with "the help" than her own family. She develops a special kinship with her parents' servant Old Thomas, who introduces her to the mysterious Lolololo Treea magical, mystical tree with healing powers that she discovers is wiser than any teacher or parent or priest. Her connection with the Lolololo Tree opens her eyes to the religious and racial prejudice of her surroundings and readers will root for her to fight against injustice and follow her heart to meet her fate.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781631529849
• Artikelnr.: 49943112

Autorenporträt

Reverend Audrey Taylor Gonzalez was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1939. In the span of her long career, she's been a journalist, TV host, art gallery owner, racehorse breeder, mountain climber, world traveler, breast cancer survivor, and the first woman to be ordained to holy orders in the Southern Cone of South America at Uruguay's Holy Trinity Cathedral in Montevideo. She's a philanthropist, and mother and grandmother to her own children as well as many people in need that have crossed her path over the years. As a deacon at Calvary Episcopal Church in Memphis, Audrey received the prestigious Juvenile Court Judges Award for Outstanding Service in 2012 and 2014 and she was selected by the governor of Tennessee as a Commissioner on TCCY (Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth). She is the author of three books, the fictional memoir The Lolololo Tree and two collections of writings and homilies, Sermons and Such and The Shady Place. South of Everything is her first novel. Audrey resides in Memphis, Tennessee. For more information about the author, please visit: www.audreytaylorgonzalez.com.